Well, you obviously Googled those names, since some of those people are dead and merely left behind foundations.

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No, I was using names in place of foundations because while Thomas Rhodes controls half a billion dollars that goes to conservative causes it's not his money, it's the Bradley's and it's donated in their name. If you'd rather go with the Rhodes though, feel free to put his name in in the place of the one foundation on the list.

What was your point? Cause I actually had a substantive one.

Fact is Soros's influence, while considerable for an individual, pales in comparison to the donations of numerous billionaire donors who give to conservative causes.

The tendency among many on the right now to pretend one rich guy donating to the left runs the world is nothing short of conspiratorial lunacy rendered ever more ridiculous when compared with the amount of money funneled to the right.

Today I saw California Girl's absolutely moronic assertion that Barack Obama is the President of the United States because George Soros wanted him to be.

I saw a news story a little while back about a leaked memo detailing a list of major contributors to conservative political causes.

I thought of that in addition to the big infamous, well-known major contributors like Forbes, Scaife, Murdoch, and Pickens and especially the Koch brothers who are the big money behind the Tea Party and major funders of climate change denial and had a long piece covering them in The New Yorker recently.

So I included the big names we all know, searched for that article with the list of contributors and cross-checked to find the richest, then researched online who the biggest donors to conservative causes have been this decade...

Yes, when in my research I found the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, I saw the foundation was run by someone else named Thomas Rhodes (on their foundation's page, it's not like I'm randomly plugging in these names one at a time) but it's not his money and he's not a billionaire while I was naming the extraordinarily wealthy people whose contributions to right wing causes are significant. The fact that they're dead doesn't seem relevant, their hundreds of millions of dollars are still going to conservatives and conservative organizations.

Again, I'm not sure what your point is. I didn't copy this list off of some website, but yes I researched who the major contributors to conservative causes were besides the Kochs, Scaifes, Forbes and those famous names and my research was done online, utilizing google among other websites to find information...

Is your line of comment suggesting that factual political information found online is irrelevant on an online political message board?

If not, it seems like you don't have a point at all.

Which suggests to me my point is quite solid, since your reply focuses on irrelevancies and non-sequitirs rather than addressing the fact that Soros is not some monolithic puppetmaster of American politics through his donations and that the right has many Soroses.

The Bradley Foundation has contributed substantially to Project for A New American Cerntury, American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, all of whom received much more from him than the $1 million Soros gave Media Matters. But it's not about something "tying my shorts in a knot" or that these people can't fund who they like, it's about the fact that the constantly repeated meme among the right wing echo chamber right now that George Soros exerts this spectacular and tremendous influence over American politics is paranoid delusional fucking clown shoes, particularly belied by the comparison to how many billionaires fund right wing causes.

This belief of one rich Hungarian Jew running the world with his comparatively measly 14 billion is little more than a conspiracy theory that doesn't hold up to the most mild scrutiny and is absurd on its face. That's all. People who believe it do not live in or understand anything resembling the real world.

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